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On Saturday morning, a man went to the Beth Yaacov synagogue in the seaside French resort of La Grande-Motte, where he set two vehicles on fire. The fire spread to the doors of the synagogue and injured a police officer. A French intelligence official stated: “The suspect is Arab with a Palestinian flag tied around his waist and a handgun on his belt.” Of course he was. As NBC News noted in mid-July, “the Palestinian flag has become a symbol of solidarity for the suffering of the Palestinian people in the Israel-Hamas war.” Yet the Palestinian flag, this ubiquitous symbol of “resistance,” is as inauthentic as the Palestinian people themselves.
The Palestine flag itself is an indication of the fact that the Palestinians are a newly-minted ethnicity — invented, in fact, by the KGB and Yasir Arafat in the 1960s to be a weapon against Israel. Before it was the flag of Palestine, the flag was the banner of the Hashemite Kingdom of Hejaz, which was established in 1916 and absorbed into Saudi Arabia in 1925. In 1924, it also became the flag of the Sharifian Caliphate, which occupied much the same territory as the Hashemite Kingdom of Hejaz in what is now Western Saudi Arabia and lasted until 1931.
The Hejaz is in Arabia — not “Palestine.” The designer of the flag was not a Palestinian, as there were no Palestinians as such in those days, but an English Colonel named Mark Sykes.
What is known today as the flag of Palestine was never actually the flag of Palestine at all. The name “Palestine” historically refers to a region that was so named by the Romans after they expelled the Jews in 134AD. The Romans took this name from that of the Philistines, the Israelites’ Biblical enemies, who had long since died out. But Palestine for the Romans (and everyone else) was just the name of a region, not of a people, and it had no flag.
Nor do we see this people or its flag throughout history. There was never an independent Palestinian state, and Arabs in the area never flew this flag. A 1939 world atlas shows a flag of Palestine, that is, British Mandate Palestine. The British held the area not as a British colony, but for the express purpose of creating there a Jewish national home, in the Jews’ ancient homeland. Inconveniently for the historical revisionists who rule the public discourse today, the 1939 flag of Mandatory Palestine shows a banner featuring a star of David.
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Paul Burns says
According to Wikipedia, each of the colours black, white and green refer to vast Islamic empires from Arab history (Abbasid, Ummayad, Fatimid) and the red triangle refers to the Hashemite Dynasty, hereditary rulers of Mecca. Nothing at all to do with the Holy Land or a nation or anything we would recognise as a national aspiration. Totally fake and just a cover for eternal imperialist Jihad against minorities.
Paul Burns says
According to Wikipedia, each of the colours black, white and green refer to vast Islamic empires from Arab history (Abbasid, Ummayad, Fatimid), and the red triangle refers to the Hashemite Dynasty, hereditary rulers of Mecca. Nothing at all to do with the Holy Land or anything we would recognize as a national struggle by a distinct ethnicity. All fake and just a cover for eternal Jihad against minorities in the Middle East.
࿗Infidel࿘ says
It also underscores the fact that the Palis are really Jordanians, or vice versa. Everything in that flag is either about historic caliphates, or the current Hashemite dynasty
SC says
A lot of the info on wikipedia is as commie tainted as the palestine flag. I used to support wikipedia until lots of definitions were suddenly politicized.
James Lincoln says
SC,
Wikipedia is a mixed bag.
For nonpolitical stuff, it’s pretty accurate: the specs on a ’62 Corvette, who won the Masters Golf tournament in 1987, etc.
Anything political – and it takes a very hard left turn…
࿗Infidel࿘ says
That’s true, but for this Palestinian flag, I looked up Wiki: see my post below. They give a good description of what each of the colors and bands signify. I also compared it w/ the Jordanian flag, as well as the Hamas flag w/ the Saudi flag. Fatah has an original flag, but it shows all of Palestine – West Bank, Gaza and Israel, so it would be about as triggering
James Lincoln says
Yes, Infidel.
I read your excellent post below.
FYI says
Black,white and Red :Sort of like those “socialists” the national “socialists”
Black of course was the color of the italian squadristi fascists.Interesting color for antifa isn’t it?
Communists love Red{communism, where all people are equal except the party bosses who are more equal than others}
Of couse we must not over interpret things;But musical tuned are always in the background for me.
For instance “Art apreciation” triggers an automatic musical sequence playing in the mind by Luigi Boccherini menuet String Quartet E major,op 11,no 5 ”
When I see a bunch of louts ..” waving your banner all over the place” and “ya BIG DISGRACE” come to mind.
When i see a bunch of certain other banner waving folk for some reason it becomes “Waving your finny all over the place”.You can change the vowels if you like…you are free to interpret that as you wish
ANN told me
Stive says
The flag also displays the 4 colors of the 4 horses of the apocalypse. I do not think that is an accident. Another name for Satan is Allah. So the flag came from Satan’s area. The British creator was moved to that design by some spiritual forces be he aware or not.
The fallen people today rally to the horses of the apocalypse. Think it’s fitting and by design.
Stive says
4 horse apocalypse flag. Not an sccident
somehistory says
Just as islam is built on lies, so is everything else about the mozlums’ claims to ownership of the Land
The entire ‘palestinian’ garbage is for the sole purpose of misleading those who fail to take notice of the Truth.
If a vessel is empty, it can be filled with many things. Water, oil, flour, dirt….etd. And an empty mind can be filled with Truth, half-Truths or lies.
Too many people today are allowing the lies to fill their minds and cause them to act in an evil way, going in an evil direction. They are headed for a fall; to complete destruction.
Rarely says
No flag exists until it does.
Flags are created as a symbol to represent a country, group, cause or whatever.
Having a flag gives the country, group or cause a feeling that it exists and notice of that to the World, nothing more or less.
Much ado about nothing.
࿗Infidel࿘ says
So you’d be perfectly fine w/ people carrying flags of Nazi Germany or the Soviet Union in the place where you live?
Rarely says
Apples and oranges.
࿗Infidel࿘ says
Well, Palestine today is about as real as the Soviet Union. Both are imaginary countries, except that the Soviet Union at one time existed
somehistory says
When the Roman armies broke through the walls of Jerusalem, they carried the Roman Standard…the flag….to show that the city now totally belonged to them.
And didn’t the astronauts take the U.S. flag to the moon?
hamas is establishing its *ownership* of the various places.
Rarely says
The U.S. owns the Moon?
somehistory says
Ask the government guys I personally have no interest in owning it.
And your question shows your intellectual immaturity.
Walter Sieruk says
It’s an outright lie that there are is such a things a “Palestinian people”. Those so called “Palestinians” are Arabs. Likewise, the “Palestine flag” is a bogus flag.
wsieruk@yahoo.com says
History reveals that the ancient Philistines recorded in the Bible and history reveals the people who came from the Greek Islands and some parts of the mainland Greece. They have no connection, at all, the to the Arab /Muslim of modern times who called themselves the “Palestinians.”
From those ancient people, the Philistines, the word “Palestine” .came into being.
There is no genuine ethic group or race who are the “Palestinians.”
Early in the last century a anyone living in that land, Arab or Jew, who lived in that land was called a ”Palestinian.”
Only after 1964 did the Arab/Muslims start to refer to themselves , exclusively , by the word “Palestinian.”
The reason for that is that they felt that by giving themselves that title they would appear to have some kind of valid claim on that land.
Indeed , there never was a “Palestinian state.”
࿗Infidel࿘ says
To emphasize the point, the only difference b/w the “Palestinian” flag ?? and the Jordanian flag ?? is the white star in the red triangular portion of the flag
I looked up Wiki, and it looks like the 3 bands represent the 3 caliphates – Umayyad, Fatimid and Abbasid, while the red triangle represents the Hashemites. It’s interesting that the Palis couldn’t even come up w/ an original flag of their own
I’m not sure even Hamas is much better – their flag seems to copy the Saudi flag ?? – which is the shehada written in white font on a green background. Only difference b/w the two is that the Saudis have the sword at the bottom
OLD GUY says
Funny how it’s always Muslims who assault a synagogue or christian church. Is islam trying to tell us they want to destroy everything non-islamic? It should not take a rocket scientist to figure that one out.